{For the first time in 63 years, the Miss World organization has announced that it will no longer have a swimsuit competition in their pageants, reports E! Online.
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\u201cThe organization has decided to take itself out of the swimsuit world because it isn\u2019t the path they\u2019re trying to take,\u201d Chris Wilmer, the national director of Miss World America\/Miss United States organization, said. \u201cIt\u2019s not just a beauty contest, it\u2019s \u2018beauty with a purpose\u2019. There didn\u2019t seem to be a purpose to have the swimsuit.\u201d<\/p>\n
I know many men that would argue a purpose. The purpose of seeing beautiful women parade around in bikinis. This is the exact reason why the organization has decided to nix the event. Wilmer says the women competiting in the pageant should be known for their outstanding moral characters.<\/p>\n
\u201cMiss World should be a spokesperson who can help a community. She\u2019s more of an ambassador, not a beauty queen. It\u2019s more about the outreach and what a woman could do with a title like Miss World,\u201d Wilmer told ABC News.<\/p>\n
The choice to make the pageant more lifestyle oriented, instead of a beauty contest, shows the organization\u2019s yearning to modernize a old practice. Beauty pageants have been around for a long time and the swimsuits have been there the entire time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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